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bruit

[broot] / brut /


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Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.

From Washington Post Dec. 8, 2009

Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in the bruit of a large city, if one voice cries out above the turmoil, will not a babel of shouts rise from competitors ?

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no assuaging of thy hurt; Thy wound is grievous: All that hear the bruit of thee clap the hands over thee: For upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Richard Green Moulton

"Le bruit du gouffre!" said Lacelle, looking at the Bo's'n.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield

She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”

From New York Times Jul. 14, 2015

Meanwhile there were bruits of great doings in the north of Lincolnshire.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley

Throkmorton, writing to the privy council that this king was looked for shortly at Orleans, adds that all bruits of trouble by him were clean appeased, which caused great marvel.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

But for such evil bruits Mr. Touchwood cared not, even if he happened to hear of them, which was very doubtful.

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

"De tous les bruits du monde celui de la musique est le plus desagreable!" was my ever-recurring thought.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

The average American probably hears peace talks being constantly bruited and thinks everything is under control.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 18, 2025

On the contrary, “Certified Lover Boy” had been bruited for nearly a year.

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2022

FDA officials also have bruited the possibility of requiring vaccine manufacturers to modify their shots by this fall to target the omicron variant.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2022

Stars and starlets sought his services, 1950s scandal sheets bruited his name and Mike Wallace grilled him on TV.

From Washington Post Jun. 20, 2021

This leaves plenty of leeway for judgment, depending on whether the writer wishes to emphasize the continuing truth of some idea that was bruited in the past.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The early bruiting of Lloyd Bentsen's name looked like a textbook case of strategic leaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those who are bruiting a new war are few in number though they may have great money power behind them.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wasn’t all that surprised he knew our code name the way people were bruiting it about.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

For her to wake up to it only now and run bruiting the stale information would be a ridiculous nuisance—a newsgirl howling yesterday's extra to to-day's busy crowd.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

Soon after this the Oscar Wilde case was bruiting about.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis




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